President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency has pulled the plug on the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which called for power plants in every state to reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 — a not so thinly veiled plan to destroy the coal industry. It was a senseless and futile gesture that would have cost Americans dearly while doing nearly nothing to protect the planet from global warming. The U.S. Supreme[…]

Surprise, surprise! A recent study out the hallowed halls of UC Berkeley found a 70 percent increase in gun deaths and injuries in California communities after gun shows in nearby Nevada cities, but no increase in gun violence following gun shows in California. If research shows it, it must prove something nefarious about the difference between gun laws in California and those in Nevada. “Our study suggests that California’s strict regulations — on firearms,[…]

“Once you have a burning yes inside you about what’s truly important, it’s very easy to say no to the unimportant.” — Stephen R. Covey I’ve always had a fascination with learning the back stories of successful people. Be they entrepreneurs, authors, musicians, sports icons, etc. How they attained their level of success has always been a source of curiosity for me. I read once where Plato wrote the first sentence of his famous Republic[…]

Footprints. Who were the people in whose footprints you stepped over the course of your life? Whose footprints led you to where, what and who you are today? I am constantly influenced by the many people in both my professional and personal life. In this first segment of a three part series, I challenge you: Who in your life helped established your path? The first footprints were of my parents, “Mama Alice” and “Michael A.”[…]

Harvey Weinstein is a Hollywood mogul extraordinaire. He was a mover and shaker. But apparently, he was moving and shaking things that didn’t want to be shook. The Weinstein Company fired its co-founder Harvey Weinstein on Sunday, after a New York Times investigation uncovered allegations that he had engaged in rampant sexual harassment, dealing a stunning blow to a producer known for shaping American film and championing liberal causes. It’s pretty bad when you are[…]

What is next? First Fake news, then James Comey. Recently Kim Jong Un and now the NFL. Is there nothing sacred? If Reagan were alive, he would say, “There you go again.” Donald Trump may be the American President, but he doesn’t understand the importance of American values — particularly freedom of expression, pluralism and tolerance. In fact, he is a threat to them. We saw yet another example of this on Friday, September 22,[…]

There are two things we can’t seem to bury: Nuclear waste and the debate over Yucca Mountain. At something dubbed the RadWaste Summit at a Las Vegas hotel earlier this month the debate over whether or not to bury nuclear waste in a labyrinth of tunnels inside Yucca Mountain continued, breaking no new ground nor changing the minds of anyone so far as we could tell. Once again it was the debate over whether science[…]